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Baron de Montesquieu

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep

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